TV | Watch: Sara Zwangobani has found herself at home in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien, the Canberran set to star in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Court: A magistrate has rejected a climate protester's claims that it was reasonable for him to block traffic outside Parliament House for an hour-and-a-half by gluing one of his hands to a road during a sitting week.
Public housing: Wait times for Canberra's crisis housing have blown out to two months, as a "perfect storm" of factors leaves the most vulnerable worse off than at any time in the last two years.
Court: A burglar bragged about stealing nearly $61,000 worth of Apple products from the technology giant's Canberra Centre store, "boastfully doing an impression of an Afro-American rapper" in a video found on his phone.
Education: The Canberra Institute of Technology has declined to release documents under freedom of information about contracts worth more than $8.5 million it awarded to a "complexity and systems thinker".
Opinion: The creation of the republic, and recognition of original inhabitants are intertwined, two sides of the same nation-creating project. Neither is whole without the other, writes Mark Kenny.
Education: The ACT government is not considering raising the starting age of school as NSW looks to have most children start kindergarten in the year they turn six.
Politics: The European Union could ink its long-awaited free-trade deal with Australia by next year after nearly half a decade of talks, the outgoing ambassador believes.